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Date:  3-26-2017
Number of Hours:  1.50
Manual Reference:  9225501-LOG-03.065
Brief Description:  2: Assembling the Right Elevator

This afternoon I got started on assembling the right elevator. First up, I riveted the nut plate stiffeners onto the spar, and then I riveted the right counterbalance arm together.

There's quite a few rivets holding the counterbalance arm skin piece in place, and I want these to look as unobtrusive as possible (a whole heap of rivets in a small space always looks like a patch job to me), so I spent some time going over all the dimpled rivet holes in the skin piece with the countersink cage, just taking a tiny bit off so the rivet heads sit perfectly flat.

After riveting the assembly together I touched up any bucking bar scratches I inadvertently created.

It's nudging 40C now, so time to go and cool off.
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That's a nice lot of rivets holding on of the elevator attachment points

That's a nice lot of rivets holding on of the elevator attachment points

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Holding the right counterbalance assembly down to rivet on the small skin piece

Holding the right counterbalance assembly down to rivet on the small skin piece

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Right elevator counterbalance arm assembled, and all scratch marks touched up.

Right elevator counterbalance arm assembled, and all scratch marks touched up.

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